Table-bell hanger



J. -B. BEACH. v Table-Bell Hanger.

Nov. 224,37 9. v Patented Feb. 10', 1880.

N. PEIERSfPHOTb-LITHOGRAFNER WASHINGTON. D. Q

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH B. BEACH, OF WEST MERIDEN, 'AS SIGNOR TO SIMPSON HALL MILLER & CO., OF WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT.

' TABLE-BELL HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,379, dated February 10, 1880.

l Application filed January 7,1880.

To all wh om it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOS. B. BEACH, of West I Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Hanging Table-Bells; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in CQJIHGCtlOTl with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon,

to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-- Figure 1, a sectional side view of the support, the bell in broken lines; Fig. 2, the bell V detached; Fig. 3, the bell in its seat.

.This invention relates to an improvement in hanging table-bells upon articles of tablet'urniture, such as casters or other articles pro- .vided with a bail or similar handles, or to fixed and permanent manner, and so that, tak

ing the handle in the hand, it may be used like any hand-bell. On the handle, near the bell, is a ball-shaped enlargement, C. Otherwise the bell and handle are or may be of usual l'orm.

vThe support here represented is a caster- ,handle, in which is an open space between the two sides D E, somewhat larger than the bell to be arranged therein. On each of .the

sides D E .is a half-socket, a, facing each other, with a space, d, between them equal to the di ameter of the handle below the enlargement C, and the half-sockets corresponding to the sides of the enlargement "outside the body of the handle, and so that the handle may be placed between said halfsockets and the enlargement C rest therein, as shown in Fig. 1, Fig. 3 showing a side view looking toward one of the half-sockets. I

The ball shape of the enlargement C permits the bell to seat itself at once in the sockets, and leaves it free to swing therein by simply giving motion through the handle, or directly to the bell itself, suflicient to bring the hammer into contact with the bell.

When required as a hand-bell it may be easily taken from its seat and replaced after use.

The illustration as applied to a caster will be sufiicient to give the information required to enable those skilled in the art to apply it to other articles of table-furniture.

I do not broadly claim the application of a bell to the handle of articles of table-furniture, as such, I am' aware, is not new; but

I do claim-- V I p In articles of table-furniture, the combination-0t the half-sockets (1, arranged to leave a space, d, between them, a bell, and handle, with enlargement C on the handle to rest in said half-sockets, substantially as described.

, JOSEPHB. BEACH.

Witnesses CHAS. H. SHAW,

ORVILLE H. PLATT. 

